3D modeling you can feel
Essential for many industries ranging from Hollywood computer-generated imagery to product design, 3D modeling tools often use text or image prompts to dictate different aspects of visual appearance, like color...
AI is pushing the limits of the physical world
Architecture often assumes a binary between built projects and theoretical ones. What physics allows in actual buildings, after all, is vastly different from what architects can imagine and design (often...
Saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to ChatGPT costs tens of millions of dollars: OpenAI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted that simple courtesies such as saying “please” and “thank you” to his company’s ChatGPT bot are surprisingly expensive — costing the firm substantial sums in...
Stumbling and Overheating, Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Half Marathon in Beijing
While capabilities like dancing can be fun and eyecatching, they don’t actually show how useful humanoid robots are in real-world situations, says Fern. Even being able to run a half...
Making AI-generated code more accurate in any language
Programmers can now use large language models (LLMs) to generate computer code more quickly. However, this only makes programmers’ lives easier if that code follows the rules of the programming...
Adapting for AI’s reasoning era
Anyone who crammed for exams in college knows that an impressive ability to regurgitate information is not synonymous with critical thinking. The large language models (LLMs) first publicly released in...
Sam’s Club reveals plan to eliminate checkout lanes completely with major change
Sam’s Club, the Walmart-owned membership warehouse, is rolling out a major change to its grocery payment system and embracing artificial intelligence (AI). The retail giant plans to phase out traditional...
An AI Customer Service Chatbot Made Up a Company Policy—and Created a Mess
On Monday, a developer using the popular AI-powered code editor Cursor noticed something strange: Switching between machines instantly logged them out, breaking a common workflow for programmers who use multiple...
MIT’s McGovern Institute is shaping brain science and improving human lives on a global scale
In 2000, Patrick J. McGovern ’59 and Lore Harp McGovern made an extraordinary gift to establish the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, driven by their deep curiosity about...
A Google Gemini model now has a “dial” to adjust how much it reasons
Google DeepMind’s latest update to a top Gemini AI model includes a dial to control how much the system “thinks” through a response. The new feature is ostensibly designed to...
Tesla slaps $10K discounts on Cybertruck amid poor sales
Tesla has reportedly scaled back production and boosted discounts for its much-hyped Cybertruck as sales skid and inventory builds up. Elon Musk’s EV company has reduced production targets for multiple...
This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
On June 5, a Pinal County Board of Supervisors meeting was asked to approve a $500,000 contract between the county and Massive Blue in order to license Overwatch. “I was...
A faster way to solve complex planning problems
When some commuter trains arrive at the end of the line, they must travel to a switching platform to be turned around so they can depart the station later, often...
A small US city experiments with AI to find out what residents want
Bowling Green, Kentucky, is home to 75,000 residents who recently wrapped up an experiment in using AI for democracy: Can an online polling platform, powered by machine learning, capture what...
Five things you should never reveal to ChatGPT if you want to protect your privacy
People turn to ChatGPT for all kinds of things — couples therapy, help with writing a professional email, turning pictures of their dogs into humans — letting the artificial intelligence...
